List of USC Gould School of Law alumni
The University of Southern California Gould School of Law (USC Gould), located in Los Angeles, California, is a law school within the University of Southern California. The oldest law school in the Southwestern United States, USC Law had its beginnings in 1896, and was officially established as a school of the university in 1900.
U.S. federal Court of Appeals judges
[edit]- Arthur Alarcón (1951) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1979–1992)
- James Marshall Carter (1927) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1967–1971); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1949–1967)
- Walter Raleigh Ely, Jr. (LL.M. 1949) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1964–1979)
- Ferdinand Francis Fernandez (1962) – Senior Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (2002–present)[1] – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1989–2002); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1985–1989)
- Warren J. Ferguson (1949) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1979–1986); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1966–1979)
- Dorothy Wright Nelson (LL.M. 1956) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1979–1995)
- David R. Thompson (1955) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1985–1998)
- Charles E. Wiggins (1956) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1984–1996)
U.S. federal District Court for the Central District of California judges
[edit]- William Matthew Byrne, Jr. (1956) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1971–1998)
- Thurmond Clarke (1927) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1966–1970); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1955–1966)
- Elisha Avery Crary (1929) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1966–1975); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1962–1966)
- Richard Arthur Gadbois, Jr. (1960) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1982–1996)
- Peirson Mitchell Hall – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1966–1968); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1942–1966)
- James M. Ideman (1963) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1984–1998)
- David Vreeland Kenyon (1957) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1980–1995)
- George H. King (1974) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1995–present)
- Stephen G. Larson (1989) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (2006–2009)
- Nora Margaret Manella (1975) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1998–2006)
- Edward Rafeedie (1959) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1982–1996)
- Albert Lee Stephens, Jr. (1938) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1966–1979); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1961–1966)
- Alicemarie Huber Stotler (1967) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1984–2009)
- Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi (1959) – first Japanese American federal judge; Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1976–1996)
- Dickran Tevrizian (1965) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1985–2005)
- Laughlin Edward Waters, Sr. (1947) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1976–1986)
- David W. Williams (1937) – first African American federal judge west of the Mississippi River; Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1969–1981)
Other U.S. federal court judges
[edit]- Mary Ann Cohen (1967) – Judge of the United States Tax Court (1982–present)
- J. Lawrence Irving (1963) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1982–1990)
- David W. Ling (1913) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (1936–1964)
- Leland Chris Nielsen (1946) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1971–1985)
- Howard Boyd Turrentine (1939) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1970–1984)
- Ronald M. Whyte (1967) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (1992–2009)
California Supreme Court justices
[edit]- David Eagleson (1950) – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1987–1991)
- Douglas L. Edmonds (1910) – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1936–1955)
- Frederick W. Houser (1900) – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1937–1942)
- Marcus Kaufman (1956) – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1987–1990)
- Joyce L. Kennard (1974) – first Asian-American to serve as an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1989–2014)
- Malcolm M. Lucas (1953) – 26th Chief Justice of California (1987–1996); Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1984–1987); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1971–1984)[2] All four were appointed by Republican governor George Deukmejian.
Business
[edit]- C. Bertrand Thompson (1900) – First African-American graduate of USC Law School at age 18, early scholar of scientific management
- Louis Galen (1951) – former CEO of Golden West Financial, philanthropist
- Sol Price (1957) – founder of Fed Mart and Price Club (Costco Wholesale Corp.)
- James E. Rogers (1963) – CEO & owner, Sunbelt Communications
- Richard Ziman (1967) – CEO, Arden Realty
- Stanley Gold (1967) – President and CEO of Shamrock Holdings
- Bruce Karatz (1970) – CEO of KB Home
- Jeff Smulyan (1972) – founder and CEO of Emmis Communications
- Brian Grazer (left in 1975) – Oscar-winning co-founder of Imagine Entertainment
- Charles Prince (1975) – former chairman & CEO of Citigroup
- Richard Rosenblatt (1994) – Founder, CEO, Intermix & Demand Media; former chairman, MySpace; Founder, former CEO, iMALL
- Larry Flax (1967) – Co-founder of California Pizza Kitchen
Other
[edit]- Greg Bautzer (1936) - celebrity divorce attorney
- Tiffiny Blacknell (2002) – Deputy District Attorney for the Los Angeles County and community activist
- Steve Cooley (1973) – 41st Los Angeles County District Attorney
- Gordon Dean (1930) – former USC Law School professor; chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
- Charles Gessler (1961) – deputy public defender and capital defense lawyer
- David Getches (1967) – former Dean and Raphael J. Moses Professor of Natural Resources Law at the University of Colorado School of Law
- James P. Gray (1971) – presiding judge of the Superior Court of Orange County; former Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate and for Vice President of the United States
- Jack Carl Greenburg (1933) – former Chief Clerk of the California State Assembly
- George Hedges (1978) – senior partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP and attorney to celebrity clients
- You Chung Hong (1924) – first Chinese American admitted to practice in California
- Frederick N. Howser (1930) – 22nd attorney general of California
- Douglas Kmiec (1976) – former U.S. Ambassador to Malta, Caruso Family Chair in Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University, f former Dean and St. Thomas More Professor at The Catholic University of America, former director of Law & Government Center, University of Notre Dame
- Jackie Lacey (1982) – first woman and first African American to serve as District Attorney of Los Angeles County
- Charles Older[3] (1952) – California Superior Court judge presiding over trial of Charles Manson; also one of the Flying Tigers pilots of World War II
- Aulana L. Peters (1973) – first African American and third woman to serve as commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Margaret Radin (1976) – law professor at Stanford Law School; former USC Law School professor
- E. Randol Schoenberg (1991) – attorney specializing in legal cases related to the recovery of looted or stolen artworks; one of the central figures of the 2015 film Woman in Gold, which depicted the case he brought against the Austrian government .
- Mabel Walker Willebrandt (1916) – Assistant U.S. Attorney General (1921–1929)
Politics
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- Arthur Alber–(1918) Los Angeles City Council member (1927–29)
- Bertrand W. Gearhart (1910) – lawyer and former member of the United States House of Representatives
- Fletcher Bowron (1911) – former mayor of Los Angeles
- J. Curtis Counts (1941) – director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.[4]
- Doug Emhoff (1990) – lawyer, Second Gentleman of the United States
- Buron Fitts (1916) – former lieutenant governor of California
- Thomas Kuchel (1935) – former United States senator
- Craig Hosmer (1940) – former United States representative
- Fred Hall (1941) – former governor of Kansas
- James B. Utt (1946) – former United States representative
- Carlos Moorhead (1949) – former United States representative
- Robert Finch (1951) – former lieutenant governor of California, former United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (1956) – Los Angeles County supervisor, former member of the United States House of Representatives
- Michael L. Williams (1979) – senior commissioner of the Railroad Commission of Texas, Texas Commissioner of Education
- John Heilman (1982) – mayor of West Hollywood, lecturer at USC Gould
- James Stuart McKnight (1908) – Los Angeles City Council member (1931–33)
- Charles K. Djou (1996) – former United States representative (Hawaii)
- Nanette Barragan (2005) – current United States representative (California)
- Pat Nolan (1975) – Member of the California State Assembly, 1978-1994; Republican Assembly Leader, 1984-1988; one of eight members of U. S. Prison Rape Commission, 2005-2009, appointed by Speaker of the House of Representatives.[5][6][7]
- William A. Munnell (1948) – former Majority Floor Leader of the California State Assembly from California's 51st State Assembly district, 1959-1961; also a judge for the Los Angeles County Superior Court, 1961-1985
Sports and media
[edit]- Terry Baker (1968) – played quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams and the CFL's Edmonton Eskimos while earning a J.D. at USC
- Ronald Barak (1968) – Olympic gymnast
- Lillian Copeland (1932) - Olympic discus champion; set world records in discus, javelin, and shot put
- Philip N. Krasne (1929) – producer of the later Charlie Chan films and the Cisco Kid television series.
- Carey McWilliams (1927) – editor of The Nation for 20 years
- Rick Neuheisel (1990) – Former head football coach at UCLA and former UCLA quarterback.
- Amy Trask (1985)[8] – Former CEO of the Oakland Raiders
- Joseph Wapner (1948) – Judge of The People's Court (former Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge)
- Wally Wolf (1930–1997) – swimmer, water polo player, and Olympic champion
References
[edit]- ^ "Fernandez, Ferdinand Francis | Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov. Retrieved 2018-09-27.
- ^ "Alumni on the Bench". USC Gould School of Law. Retrieved February 27, 2011.
- ^ "Charles Older, 88; Presided Over Manson Trial". Washington Post. Associated Press. 17 June 2006.
- ^ Thurber, Jon (1999-07-04). "J. Curtis Counts; Labor Negotiator Headed Federal Mediation Service". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
- ^ "Inventory of the Patrick J. (Pat) Nolan Papers".
- ^ "Pat Nolan". Fox News. 7 May 2022.
- ^ "National Prison Rape Elimination Commission - Commissioners Biographies". www.nprec.us. Archived from the original on 8 May 2008. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ "State Bar of CA :: Amy Jeanne Trask". Members.calbar.ca.gov. Retrieved 2015-10-26.